New Jersey's Seth Kaper-Dale

Kaper-Dale is a high profile pastor and social justice advocate. He “has a well organized campaign,” according to national Greens Media Director, Mr. Scott McLarty.

“The attention the [Kaper-Dale] campaign brings, makes his competition important,” McLarty said in comments for IVN.

Kaper-Dale has had extensive media coverage in religious publications, and major news outlets, for his social advocacy. His work building homes for young adults who have aged out of foster care was featured in, among others, PBS’s Religion and Ethics Weekly.

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The New York Times ran an article on Kaper-Dale’s extraordinary achievements protecting immigrants rights, and getting ICE to look more compassionately at individual cases.

A peer in his work, Amy Gottlieb, immigrant rights director of the American Friends Service Committee, called his accomplishment “amazing” in the NYT article. She’s quoted in the piece saying:

“One, you just never believe that ICE is going to work with you on anything, given the history, and given the intensive arrest efforts for the last two or three years, it’s hard to believe that people are ready to recognize that every single case has a human angle.”

Kaper-Dale’s work in these areas, and others, like prison reform and LGBTQ rights, have been featured in dozens of high-profile outlets including NPR, the Huffington Post, and the New Republic, as well as several mainstream media news outlets like Fox, ABC, and NBC.

Though Greens hope that such a high-profile community member can bring in the limelight, Nate Fishman, Kaper-Dale’s operations director, says that though he has gotten a lot of attention for his social justice work, “the corporate media is blocking attention” for his candidacy, and separating his advocacy from his party status.

Ohio's Constance Gadell-Newton Esq.

In 2018, Greens will run Constance Gadell-Newton Esq. for Governor, in Ohio. According to the Ohio Greens, Gadell-Newton started her career prosecuting war criminals in the Hague, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Gadell-Newton is currently a co-chair of the Ohio Green Party, and defense attorney in Columbus.

We have had candidates running for governor before, and some have done very well.

Scott McLarty, US Green Party Communications Director

She is running on typical Green issues: justice reform, immigrant rights, universal healthcare, and fair wages. She also adds protecting gun rights to her list of concerns.